ABOUT AMBER

Amber has always aspired to make the world a better place. As a Human Rights major at Columbia University, she took a macro approach to understanding conflict and trauma, completing her thesis on overcoming the impact of sexual violence in post-genocide Rwanda. Working with organizations such as UNAIDS and Doctors Without Borders, she became familiar with some of the most shocking brutalities the human experience has to offer. Inspired by social justice pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer, she followed her heart into healthcare. 

After completing her post-baccalaureate premedical program at Harvard University, Amber immersed herself in clinical research at two cutting-edge institutions: Methodist Hospital in Houston and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She matriculated to Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in 2011, but took a leave of absence after her first year after being diagnosed with debilitating depression and anxiety. Disillusioned by how disconnected western medicine had become from the body’s innate wisdom, she was forced to reconsider a career path that required her to sacrifice her own health in the name of healing others. 

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Amber returned to New York City for several years to explore other avenues of effecting change, designing patient-centered products in healthcare tech and expanding the reach of meditation with a corporate wellness start-up. During this time, she immersed herself in her own quest for holistic health, expanding her knowledge of functional medicine to include an array of alternative healing modalities such as integrative nutrition, yoga, meditation, energy healing, hypnotherapy, plant medicine and breathwork . 

Having developed a deep appreciation for the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit, Amber returned to graduate school to pursue her master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies. She completed her clinical training at an addiction treatment facility in Los Angeles, and began her PhD coursework in Transpersonal Psychology in the spring of 2019. Today, Amber continues on her personal journey toward wholeness, understanding now that changing the world is an inside job.